Premise

The year is 2143 CE, over thirty years since the Great Unification of humankind. After being kicked out of the Space Commonwealth transport fleet on disputed charges of gross incompetence, one Captain James seeks out a new life by purchasing a cheap refurbished spacecraft on Pluto, the titular Rover. He is soon also lumbered with a free android "inducement" - the peculiarly named Peter Gans Lee - and by the arrival of a rogue hologram worker, little do any of them realize what their new life is going to bring them in a hostile, and deeply absurd, universe...

Logos and Graphics

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Concept Art

The following conceptual pieces describe the external appearance of the Rover.

Released on December 1, 2016. Scanned on an HP Officejet 4630 series using XSane version 0.999 with HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) version 3.16.11 [device manager version 15.0(Qt4)]. Editing and export done in GNU Image Manipulation Program version 2.8.18. Vector editing and colourization done in Inkscape version 0.91. All running on Fedora 23 Linux kernel version 4.8.10-100.fc23.x86_64. Drawn by Laura Warman.

Premise: Discharged from his cushy job as an official transport captain, James heads to Pluto to buy a cheap refurbished spaceship, plus android assistant, ignorant as to what is lurking within the Rover's computer system...

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Series I: A Man And His Machines

In addition to the completed pilot script, drafts for episodes 2-6 are already extant, comprising a full series in proper Britcom tradition. Both audio and video incarnations are planned. A complete novelization of the first series is also concieved, adding in more backstory. Audio, video and novel incarnations are said to exist in closely joined but separate dimensions, allowing for a general amount of continuity between them. The series also already begins a plotted overaching story thread to be played out as the series progresses. The download links will be filled in as episodes are produced.

1. Undocumented Features

The final version to be adapted from the pilot release.

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N/A (see Pilot Episode)

2. Ne Humanis Crede

Attempting to raid a derelict, the crew discover the reason the ship was abandoned, when a experimental upgrade stalls the Rover and makes Hologram turn inexplicably homicidal.